μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The curious wife.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T258

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

2 finer motifs beneath it
The curious wife: wait and see. A man and his wife overhear thieves planning to rob the house, put the man out of the way, and have their will of the wife. The man wants to raise an alarm. She says, "Wait and see." Wife insists upon knowing husband's secret
Filed beside it
The shrewish wife The overbearing wife The nagging wife The disobedient wife The obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.) The quarrelsome wife or husband Jealous wife or husband The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.) The hypocritical wife. Shows what she has done for her husband, but not what she has done for herself Jewels of Cornelia. She shows her children as her jewels Beautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradise The neglected wife The silent wife Wife cannot keep secret The spendthrift wife

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